High school dropout, Abraham Abdallah, duped more than 200 of the ‘Richest People in America’ listed in Forbes magazine by using computers in a Brooklyn library — looks like somebody’s been making fine use of the public facilities.
Home pages and accounts on Tripod, one of the Internet’s largest free Web site hosting services, have vanished unexpectedly, victims of misdirected policy enforcements.
Subscribers to United States broadband cable service @Home have sued the company alleging it misled people to sign up for the service with the promise that it could provide faster Internet connections, while it routinely slowed customers’ connections by limiting uplink speeds and overloading the number of users sharing nodes of the service.
An Internet stalker has been sentenced to seven years jail by a British judge for hacking into a teenage girl’s Web site and posting her home address with an invitation to rape and abuse her
Things got a bit heated at the recent three-day Association for Computing Machinery conference when academics and engineers told IT workers that computers are illogical machines in dire need of a total overhaul, and the information technology industry is completely screwed up.
If you’ve ever felt like hurling your mobile phone out the window due to poor connection, a cheap functional paper phone should be available before the end of the year, making a rash action a more financially viable option.
Seven lines of code that can crack DVD encryption and open them for copying has been posted on the Internet allowing a new argument against the inappropriate use of zoning on DVDs.
Critics have charged in February that ICANN didn’t use a democratic process when it selected seven new domain name suffixes; .biz, .aero, .pro, .info, .name, .museum and .coop, that are part of Web site addresses — not that difficult to believe considering the rather stupid suffixes that were approved.
Governments want the benefits of the Net, but they also seek to maintain limits on freedom — but the people who are serious about diffusing information online have ways around most blocks and are willing to use them even if it means risking their lives.
New.net is challenging ICANN’s control of Internet domain names with its offering of 20 new top level domains such as .shop, .kids, and .xxx.
The Brisbane council is once again using bullying tactics in an attempt to hijack another domain, this time BrisbaneCity.com is in their sights.
Hal, a software based toddler, is said to have fooled independent experts into believing they were reading conversations between an adult and a real 15 month old child. The last thing I want is intelligent computers, because the first thing they’ll discover is that humans are a blight on the planet and destroy us all.
China has released new software, called Internet Police 110, to help purify their Internet service. It will prevent users from getting unhealthy information from foreign and domestic web sites — like non-government approved facts or anything remotely connected to Falun Gong
While security experts are concerned, the practice of hijacking your home page is rude and annoying. Although when you don’t realise its happened until you next logon, in the case of a recent release of software from UPS, it starts to get beyond a joke.
Trevor Tasker, a 28 year old British man, proved that the course of true romance rarely runs smooth, when he flew to America to meet his chat room ‘love’. His intended turned out to be a 68 year old pensioner with a body in her freezer.
What’s on your server? The music industry is developing software that will automatically detect people who are illegally swapping songs over the Internet — and it is prepared to pass the information on to the police.
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is tackling cybersquatting, amongst other things, at a conference in Geneva this week. They hope to create global stability, but some countries believe it is still a local matter. To win a case in the WIPO system, the challenger must prove three things: that the domain name in question is identical or similar to the challenger’s trademark; that the person who registered it has no legitimate interest; and that he or she has registered and used the domain in bad faith.
If you can’t blame goth music for the corruption of today’s youth, who can you blame? Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad blames the internet for the increasing incidence of violent crimes
With ideas that could turn empty crisp bags into cheap computer memory Brian Hubert, winner of the 2001 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Inventiveness, should be the first person cloned — this is a guy we need more of.
After trashing several web sites, including Disney, this week, the hackers taking credit for the attacks got the hump at being referred to as ‘script kiddies‘ and launched a repeat attack on Intel — who weren’t the source of the comment. Getting a clue, a life, a dictionary and past puberty might actually become a reality if they could just get over the whole tantrum thing.
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